Improvement in feed-rack for addressing-machines



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FEED RACK FOR ADDRESSING MACHINES.

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No. 92,444. Patented July 13, 1869.

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WILLIAM H. HENDERSON AND I/VILLIAM II. SNIDER, ()F LENA,

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Letters Patent No. 92,444, dated July 13, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEED-RACK I'OR ADDRESSING-MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I To all whom it may concern I Be-it known that we, WILLIAM H. HENDERSON and WILLIAM H. 821mm, both of Lena, in the county of Stephenson, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Printing Addresses on Newspapers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to that cliiss of addressing machines in which the names to be printed are set up in columns in a galley or chase, which is intermittently fed forward under an opening in a-table, through which opening a platen descends to take the impression; and

The improvement herein claimed consists in a novel method of combining, with the chase or galley, a re movable perforated bar, into which the feed-pawl takesto move the galley.

In the accompanying drawings, which make part of this specification- 1 Figure 1 represents a plan or top view of our im proved machine, the parts below the table being shown in dotted lines;

Figure 2 represents a view in elevation of the same,

as seen from one side; and I Figure 3 represents a similar view from the front.

In this instance, the mechanism is shown as supported on a standard, A, mounted on legs a.

A platform or table, B, is fastened on the top of the standard A. I I

A treadle, O, is pivoted to play vertically on a fulcrum, c, on an arm, 0 attached to the frame supported on the legs (1-.

This treadle moves in a vertical slot in a brace, 0' and its range of movement is limited by stops 0" c, in this brace.

A spring, D, secured at one end to the plate B, and at the other to the rear end of the treadle, serves to depress that end of the trcadle when its front end is released by the operator.

A pitma-u, c, connects the ,treadle with a shaft, E, reciprocating endwise through a slot in the table, and

through a guide-collar, E, on a bracket, E on the.

lockedwith the chase against horizontal or longitudinal strains. y

The chase and bar are capable of sliding freely endwise in a box, H, under the table B."

A link-rod, J, pivoted to the treadle O, is connected with a slotted arm, j, on a rock-shaft, K, mounted in suitable bearings beneath the table.

The range of movement of this rock-shaft can be varied, by adjusting the link J nearer to or further from the rock-shaft, thus varying the feed, as hereinafter explained.

A spring, m, keeps the pawl pressed against the H feed bar.

The operation is as follows:

The addresses being set up on the galley, and the I feed-bar" being in place, the galley, after inking the type, is inserted into the box H, (on the side of the arrow,) until the pawl m takes intoone of the holes '5, at which time the first address should be directly under the platen. j

The paper is then placedover the opening in the table, and the platen F brought down upon the type, by the operator depressing the treadle O with his foot, and thus drawing down the pitman c.

The red lines in fig. 2, show the position of the spring D and platen at this moment.

As soon as the first address is'printed, the-operator releases the ti'eadle, which is instantly vibrated back to its former position hy=its spring D.

This movement throws up the platen and draws down the link-rod J, which, through the rock-shaft K, reciprocates the slide-bar L, and carries forward the pawl, and consequently the galley, the distance of one address. r The platen is again depressed, and another address printed, as above described.

During the descent of the platen, the movement of the slide-bar is reversed, and the pawl is retracted to engage in a new hole in the feed-bar." This process is repeated until the addresses in the galley are all 'printed.

The bar I is then detached and applied to a new galley, and the work continues as before.

By our improvement one feed-bar alone is required and the use of ratchets on the galleys is avoided, the teeth of which ratchets are apt to strip, and render the feed irregular and imperfect. Having thus described our improved machine, \Vhat we claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the galley, of the detachable perforated feed-bar, constructed and applied as set forth.

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names.

W. H. HENDERSON. \VILLIAM H. SNIDER.

\Vitncsses AARON W. HALL, P. B. STEINMETZ. 

